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The Puritans got involved? or did the right girl win?

Miss Tuktamysheva is a HARLOT! she should never be allowed on the team!!

Miss Tuktamysheva is The BEST! she should be on the team!!

Miss Tuktamysheva is a talented Skater but the better skaters were selected

I just want to know where I can find those videos of skaters exposing themselves.

Russian Figure Skating: The Puritans got involved? or did the right girl win?

I will say that I don't know much about figure skating, I can tell you that the Russians have some extremely talented, athletic and real stars. Also note that I only went back and watched these athletes skate AFTER I read about the controversy. I don't really watch figure skating except sometimes during the Olympics.

I also watched a little bit during the Tanya Harding fiasco, but that was decades ago.

We've all seen wardrobe malfunctions, nip slips and a little too much skin accidentally displayed during figure skating and other events. I don't think a single women's water polo match has happened without a boobie getting exposed.

Apparently Elizaveta Tuktamysheva started with a costume and took some of it off during an exhibition (not a contest) to the music of Britney Spears and it was called a strip tease by the prudish fussbudgets who make up the figure skating judging community.

Mind you I've seen skaters who started out wearing less than Miss Tuktamysheva finished her routine wearing. I've seen skaters that wore costumes that accidentally exposed nipples and/or labia and there is no way that Miss Tuktamysheva wore anything even close to revealing those bits.

The decision was made at a coaching council of the Russian Figure Skating Federation in Moscow following days of speculation over who would get the final spot on the teamand the Russian selectors have opted to hand Evgenia Medvedeva a place in the team at the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan, with Elizaveta Tuktamysheva being put on the reserve list..

So I read all this first and decided to post a few videos too see how bad things were. I totally believe that calling the exhibition a strip tease is ridiculous. I will say that the girl who was chosen is a very talented and gifted skater and it could be argued that she won the competition outright, I will post some videos and let you decide.

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FSUW are not for entry level daters. FSUW don't do vague FSUW like a man of action so be a man of action If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane. There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it upKiss the girl, don't ask her first. Get an apartment not a hotel. DON'T recycle girls

I was a little surprised by the interest in this topic. In fact, the selection for the World Cup was not fair due to the lack of clear criteria. As a result, Medvedeva will go, although she is far from to be the best and failed almost all competitions 2018-2019. The trouble is that there are too many talented girls in Russia, but they don't have such experience of a dull struggle. It's a shame for Liza, she has the most difficult technical program in this season, she successfully performed at all competitions, until she fell ill and missed the Russian championship, where Medvedeva was only 7. At the Russian Cup, the judges did everything to help Medvedeva. It will be just a shame that after she'll fail Russia lose one quota and will be not able to send 3 talented figure skaters next year.As for the dance with striptease elements, it was part of the Grand Prix show, it should be taken as a joke.

The other girls for the Russian team are Sofia Samodurova, and Alina Zagitova. There was no controversy about their selection so I didn't know anything about them until I read that they were part of the team at RT.com

You can write everything I know about figure skating on the back of a postage stamp, however I am sure that everyone can see that the Russian team is very talented.

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I remembered the big attention directed at Yulia Lipnitskaya at the 2014 Winter Olympic games when she was 15 years old. I wondered what happened to her and later heard that she quit her skating career three years after the games. She looked very promising, but suffered from weight issues.